The second trial of Michael Ball for the murder of Erin Howlett will not take place at the Kitchener courthouse.
The trial will start April 3, 2018, nearly five years after Howlett’s body was found inside a duffel bag in the Grand River in Kitchener.
Ball was arrested in November 2013 on charges of first-degree murder and committing an indignity to a body.
A four-month trial ended in a mistrial, with jurors unable to agree on a verdict on the murder charge. They did convict him of indignity to a body, for which he was sentenced to time already served plus one day.
The location of the second trial has not been disclosed publicly, beyond that it will not be in Waterloo Region.
